I know that if I smelled my neighbors firing up a smoker...I'd be over there to ask if I could have some! (Give me some lead time, and I might even swing by the store and pick up a brisket or what-have-you to bring with as a peacemeat offering.)

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It is a bit strange that this is in the Civil Code, but I've never thought it is outright weird for I've learned a bit about bee behavior in biology class before I stumbled upon these articles. It's rather "how to handle bee behavior in a legally sensible way".

There are lots of strange and weird laws here, and some I'd call outright unjust (although very few, actually), but overall, when I compare them to those of other countries, I want to kneel down to thank my God for our law system.

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Dead-last place actually (10 shooters I think). The other shooters were VERY good though. A perfect score was 600 and there were several 598's. I scored around 430. I was also shooting the only truly high-power rifle there though, most shooters were using match-grade AR-15's and I had a bolt gun in 7mm Remington Magnum . I did finish though, which they weren't expecting since I was using such a high-recoiling rifle, the other guys expected me to tear up my shoulder and quit early. And I was generally hitting the target too. 600 yards is pretty easy with sandbags or a bipod, but this was prone and sling-supported only which I was not prepared for.

There are lots of strange and weird laws here, and some I'd call outright unjust (although very few, actually), but overall, when I compare them to those of other countries, I want to kneel down to thank my God for our law system.

Especially paragraph 3 is IMHO too much common sense that it has to be codified

(for our non-German capable readers, the law is about when fumes or odors that enter your property have to be tolerated. Paragraph 3 states that it does not have to be tolerated if your neigbor built a "special pipe" to make sure that the fumes enter your property).

Especially paragraph 3 is IMHO too much common sense that it has to be codified

"Common sense" is one of the oldest oxymora in the book, and I won't even start about sense vs. lawyers and/or neighbors.

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It's probably similar to 12-gauge slugs. I haven't shot slugs in a while so I might be misremembering. It's definitely much worse than #7 birdshot which I can shoot all day with either of my shotguns without discomfort.

Standard 12ga slugs are 2 3/4 inches. I was talking about 3 inch slugs, which have quite a bit more recoil. Standard size slugs deliver a bit over 2000 ft-lbs of energy, 3 inch slugs deliver around 4000 ft-lbs. They also make a 3 1/2 inch slug that delivers nearly 5000 ft-lbs, but I've never shot one.

Your 7mm Remington Magnum is a bit over 3000 ft-lbs with the most common ammo.

Your 7mm Remington Magnum is a bit over 3000 ft-lbs with the most common ammo.

Mine's probably lower than that, I handload and I intentionally handload light with 120-grain bullets while 150 - 175 is the norm. I don't have a chrono yet, if I did I could calculate the muzzle energy.

Standard 12ga slugs are 2 3/4 inches. I was talking about 3 inch slugs, which have quite a bit more recoil. Standard size slugs deliver a bit over 2000 ft-lbs of energy, 3 inch slugs deliver around 4000 ft-lbs. They also make a 3 1/2 inch slug that delivers nearly 5000 ft-lbs, but I've never shot one.

Your 7mm Remington Magnum is a bit over 3000 ft-lbs with the most common ammo.

And all of that only has a loose correlation on recoil. Very loose. It matters fuck-all.

Crime rates aren't strongly correlated with gun ownership. They're correlated more with economic status (which might itself correlate somewhat with gun ownership, but only because a gun doesn't cost nothing to purchase). However, it seems there's also a general reduction in the level of crime across a large part of the world and nobody's really sure why last I heard.

I handload and I intentionally handload light with 120-grain bullets while 150 - 175 is the norm. I don't have a chrono yet, if I did I could calculate the muzzle energy.

That's amusing. I think I have brought it up before, but way back in the day I used to do the same thing in order to hunt vermin at long range. IIRC, I handloaded with even lighter bullets. I went for the lightest boat tail bullets that I could get in .30 caliber.

120-grain is the lightest .284 I could find. More than adequate for whitetail deer, and also has the advantage of being a really fast bullet which helps a lot with accuracy since my rifle was cheap. I wish I had a chrono to confirm because it's probably around 3,500 feet per second.

If I ever make it out west to go elk hunting, I'd probably step up to 175-grain.